Yes, I have also been on the receiving end of such lucrative ‘compensation’ with very little gardening done.
I could care less.
I should care less.
Passive aggressive meaninglessness…
“Cheap at half the price”
Never made any sense to me at all, apparently meaning that something would be cheap even if it wasn’t as cheap as it is… The meaningful term would be “cheap at twice the price”!
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My first memory of that phrase was damning with faint praise, so something you weren’t too impressed by was cheap at half the price, it now seems to have morphed into meaning good value.
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I think this was a mickey take on the the correct turn of phrase. Arfur Daley style.
The world is your Lobster etc 
‘This is x and x, we’ve booked an engineer to call pm (1-6) on the 20th May’
…and you take the afternoon off, and you wait, and you wait.
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Yes, I have never understood the logic of that one. On the face of it, it’s saying that if it were half the price then it could be considered to be cheap.
Sophisticated, is a word that I find disturbing. It’s original meaning is quite different to its current meaning - see, for example, the abstract below.
I can see a current use along the lines of “a sophisticated liar”…in which the original definition plays a significant role !
Definition: having or showing a lot of experience and knowledge about the world and about culture, art, literature, etc.
When we think of something or someone that is sophisticated , certain things come to mind: a certain degree of worldliness, or an admirable complexity. What we do not usually think of, however, is something to which the word’s original definition could be applied: “not in a natural, pure, or original state; adulterated.” This early sense of the word began being used in the middle of the 16th century; it was over three hundred years before we began to use it to refer to worldly and educated people.
I’m fond of Tom Lehrer’s interpretation (from his live intro to I Wanna Go Back To Dixie) “I find that if you take the various popular song forms to their logical extremes, you can arrive at almost anything from the ridiculous to the obscene, or – as they say in New York – sophisticated.”
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“Climate Emergency” is rubbing me up the wrong way presently.
It means what definitively?
I’m not giving up until I find the undisputed definitive definition!
I think it means you need to dial 999 or 912 depending where you are and ask for the climate response team, which might involve rescue if you are caught by a freak flash flood, or ambulance if suffering heatstroke from unprecedented hot weather, etc…
I rather like Organising For Growth…
‘Reaching out’ really gets me
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It basically means no buggar has listened for the last 35 years !
“Lets imagineer” !!! 
enjoy/ken
“Trade wars are good and easy to win” but I’m not mentioning who said it!
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